Crash Course US History 27: the Progressive Era 1. If the Gilded Age Was a Period Where

•Crash Course US History 27: The Progressive Era
1. If the Gilded Age was a period where people noted that there were societal problems, what did people do in the Progressive Age?
2. What were the progressives most concerned about in a capitalist society?
3. Large, monopolistic, industrial combinations were called what?
4. What is a form of journalism, where the dirt of society was shown to the people?
5. Who is the author of the MYSTERY DOCUMENT?
6. What was the name of the book from where this document came?
7. What 2 Acts did the Jungle lead to?
8. Writing about problems was not new but what was?
9. Since workers did not have twitter, what did they have to organize in order to be heard?
10. In 1914, what was the average that Ford paid his workers a day?
11. Most business owners, including Ford were anti- what?
12. The ‘Wobblies’ or the Industrial Workers of the World, were what kind of political group?
13. The dangerous accumulation of wealth was thought to be cured by what?
14. What were some of the ‘new-fangled devices’ of the mass-consumer society?
15. What are you allowed to do in advertising?
16. The method of ‘scientifically’ improving efficiency, which was known as Taylorism made its way to what type of institution?
17. Social legislation was more successful at what level?
18. What is the process of allowing voters to put issues directly on the ballot and voting on them at the time of elections?
19. How were immigrants shut out of the political process?
20. Voter suppression led to what percentage of eligible voters actually voting?
21. Other than literacy requirements, some southern states also charged what?
22. What is the Supreme Court decision of 1896 which made segregation legal?
23. So this then allowed for 2 of everything which could be separate and what (which is where the discrimination is evident)?
24. What former slave was striving to improve the lives of African Americans?
25. What did he emphasize for African Americans to be successful?
26. What organization did W. E. B. DuBois help found?
27. What tactics of the progressives do we use today to try to change social issues?